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List:       freedesktop-xorg-devel
Subject:    Re: [ANNOUNCE] X Server 1.19.7 maintenance release plan
From:       "Kevin Brace" <kevinbrace () gmx ! com>
Date:       2019-02-07 3:48:57
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Hi René,
 
I am planning to mainly release a maintenance release of 1.19 and possibly 1.18 \
later. As Alan Coopersmith has stated, XAA has been gone for some time, and I doubt I \
am allowed to apply the 24-bit bpp EXA patch to older X Server releases and ship a \
new version.  As for old S3 (i.e., Vision and Trio) and S3 ViRGE, I recently tested \
them on X Server 1.19.6, and at least ViRGE PCI and ViRGE GX2 AGP appear to work \
nominally okay. What I mean by "nominally okay" is, booting X Server and being able \
to change the screen resolution from an OS panel. Since it is "nominally okay," of \
course, there is no acceleration and standby resume is broken.

S3 Trio and older series appear to be broken and I am not able to even boot X Server \
with some devices like Vision 968 (both TI and IBM RAMDAC). I did try Trio32 1 MB, \
but the screen is pretty messed up (it did boot X Server). I can retry this with \
16-bit color depth later.  For the past 6 to 7 days, I have been trying to get old \
Trident graphics cards (i.e., TGUI and ProVidia) working with X Server 1.19, and I \
have now figured out why it is not working. I will discuss this over on my blog soon.
 
Regards,
 
Kevin Brace
Brace Computer Laboratory blog
https://bracecomputerlab.com
 
 

Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2019 at 9:34 AM
From: "René Rebe" <rene@exactcode.de>
To: "Kevin Brace" <kevinbrace@gmx.com>
Cc: xorg-devel <xorg-devel@lists.x.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] X Server 1.19.7 maintenance release plan

Hi,
 

On 05 Feb 2019, at 02:06, Kevin Brace <kevinbrace@gmx.com[mailto:kevinbrace@gmx.com]> \
wrote: Hi,

Back in early January 2019, I proposed releasing X Server 1.19.7 since there are \
about 20+ fixes queued in since the previous maintenance release of X Server 1.19.6 \
back in December 2017. I did not see anyone objecting to a new maintenance release, \
so I will like to appoint myself to this task. Personally, I have never been involved \
in releasing such a large software package in the past, so I am sure I will need some \
help in doing this (in fact, I will ask for help very shortly). Anyway, X Server is \
an important piece of a FOSS software stack, so even if it is a maintenance release, \
I do not want to mess it up. If there are other deserving fixes that should be \
applied before the release, let me know. I would imagine that the code should go \
through a testing phase (1.19.7 RC1, etc.) since I lack experience in handling such a \
large software package release. Assuming everything goes right, I expect an official \
maintenance release around end of February 2019 to early March 2019. Thank you for \
your effort, as visible on my YT channel I also like to play with nice vintage gear.  \
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjdyd3xcDVY[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjdyd3xcDVY]
  
I guess 1.19 was with XAA already removed? For really vintage hardware and \
applications choosing the last xorg-server with XAA might make sense, so one can get \
this solid lines, fills, and such accelerated, ..?  
Keep up the good work,
maybe I find some spare time to contribute S3/Virge or 3dfx fixes another day ;-)
 
René 

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